Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, The Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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A Catalogue of ... [books] ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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Proust's Duchess
Author: Caroline Weber
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345803124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style." All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345803124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style." All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.
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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Dictionary Catalog of the Art and Architecture Division
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
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Languages : en
Pages : 1662
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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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